Subject: Re: X Window display server
To: Alain Golan <alain@NetVision.net.il>
From: Henry Ware <hware@admiralty.ai.mit.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 07/28/1996 14:24:30
Hello,
> - Start your eXodus on the Mac, with the menus, allow to connect without
> authorisation.
Note that this is a security risk; its equivalent to doing an "xhost +",
allowing any machine on the internet access to your X-display. The curious
can easily snoop anything you type (and search that for password), and can
send in keystrokes as well. If you turn on authorisation, these security
problems go away... but authorising every connection can be a real pain.
Just thought you should know,
Henry Ware